will deleting old files improve performance?
If the files are in the Cloud, Autodesk is carrying the performance load. If you are saving locally, perhaps but not likely.
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@conjured2018 - slow speed doing what kind of thing? If the slowness is in, say the data panel, or in the Open dialog, then, maybe deleting old designs can help. But, if you are dealing with graphics performance, or modeling performance, or sketch performance, then no, that has nothing to do with the number of projects/designs in your hub.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
A couple of comments:
- an i5 is a bit underpowered for Fusion. I'm not sure whether that is the source of the problem, or if there is something else. Would have to see the design to be sure.
- pure number of bodies or sketches does not necessarily relate to performance. Certainly, lots of bodies or sketches can lead to bad performance, but a few sketches or bodies can still result in bad performance, if those bodies or sketches, themselves, are complex. Especially sketches - it is easy to end up with a complex sketch that, by itself, can kill performance.
- interesting to see your comments on move - just to be clear, you are using Move, with the type set to Components? And are seeing differences between translation and rotation. I have not seen any cases where this is the case. Would be interested in seeing that.
- an open of 20 mins is certainly very slow. If you export this design to disk, how large is it in MB?
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
OK, that is good information. If you want to share the problem design with me privately, see my response to your DM. I would like to see what is in that design that might be causing issues. Thanks.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
thanks for sharing the design with me, @conjured2018 - I can definitely verify that something weird is going on with this design. I think it is geometry-related. I can verify that translate is smooth, while initial rotate is slow (though subsequent rotate seems OK - it's just that first one).
One observation - there are no components in this design, only a set of bodies. That is not a problem, but it does mean that the problem is in body Move, not Component move (which is a much different operation internally), so having the design is valuable for us to debug it.
Open is slow for me, but definitely under 20 mins. That could be the i5 vs i7 processor speed, however.
The bodies in this design are certainly a bit messy (small sliver faces, lots of what appear to be "extra" faces, etc). Where did the geometry for these bodies initially come from? The design is a Direct Modeling design, which makes me think that this data is imported. If so, do you have the original design available?
Finally, until we figure out what is slow in this design, I did find that export to STEP and re-import helps a lot. As a short term workaround, you might try that. I will email you the STEP design.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
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